HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081626650
Bassin de Orange River (Oranje)
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Karas, Namakwa
Sub-basin area
460,6km²
Upstream area
786 079,8km²
Discharge
338,55m³/s
Mean elev.
514m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,4°C
Annual rain
80mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
66mm
Mean slope
9,7°
Water table
1 096cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)